Palm Sunday As we near the end of Lent, we celebrate Palm Sunday, also known as Passion Sunday. At the beginning of the liturgy, we receive palms in memory of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. We become the part of the crowd of pilgrims who had...

January 16, 2016 Posted By: foundationParish BlogComments are off for this post

January 15th, 2016 by the Rev. Janet Vincent Yesterday I spent a few hours working on a benefit for Holy Cross School in Grahmstown, South Africa. The school is the work of the Order of the Holy Cross, an Episcopal Church (USA) order of religious men. In 1998 they were...

November 25, 2015 Posted By: foundationParish BlogComments are off for this post

Advent, the four weeks set aside in the church calendar to prepare for Christmas, is my favorite season. It reorients me in time, reminding me that we live in the brief interval between Christ’s birth and Christ’s return. It really is a brief moment in the grand scheme of things,...

November 11, 2015 Posted By: foundationParish BlogComments are off for this post

This is the fourth and final reflection on stewardship by parishioner Martha Brittell. Nov. 15th Walking into the house I heard Laurel’s voice leaving a message on my answering machine. I didn’t hurry to pick up the phone. It was that time of year and I had...

November 11, 2015 Posted By: foundationParish BlogComments are off for this post

This is the third of four stewardship reflections by Martha Brittell. Nov. 8th, 2015 Almost anyone entering our cottage would find the air to be musty, but not me. That smell carries me away and I am a ten-year-old, sandy, sunburned girl playing cards on the floor with my brother...

November 11, 2015 Posted By: foundationParish BlogComments are off for this post

This is the second of four stewardship reflections by parishioner Martha Brittell. October 25th, 2015 My visit to see family in Chicago last weekend was an opportunity for my sister Ruth and me to share a conversation with our mother which we recorded for family, especially grandchildren. We listened...

November 11, 2015 Posted By: foundationParish BlogComments are off for this post

This is the first in a series of four reflections by parishioner Martha Brittell on stewardship. October 18th, 2015 “Where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them” (Matthew 18:20) Many of us dream and work to stake a claim on a piece of land...